FutureStructure Infrastructure
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Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
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The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.
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Transit officials in Kansas City, Mo. plan to eliminate bus fares system-wide this year.
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The newly signed law establishes the Electric Vehicle Charging Station Incentive Program, which provides grants to add new charging infrastructure and upgrade existing stations.
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The Circular City program, a project by New Lab and the NYC Economic Development Corporation, has issued an open call for startups to use technology to address the city’s sustainability goals.
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Vendors at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show tackled an oft-discussed goal for municipal leaders, looking at how communities could use smart city technology to transform aging infrastructure.
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The Michigan college town is using its ongoing partnership with the University of Michigan and private industry to gather and share data from connected vehicle and infrastructure interactions.
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The 2020 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas features a host of new exhibits and conversations about how smart city design, transportation, security and equity will evolve in the years to come.
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Gov. Ned Lamont announced that a new partnership with AT&T will bring enhanced Internet connectivity along the route between New Haven and Greenwich. Eventually, that infrastructure will support 5G equipment.
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Transportation for America selected Bellevue, Wash.; Minneapolis, Minn.; and Boston as locations to study the demands placed on curb space. The cities are part of the 2020 Transportation for America Smart Cities Collaborative.
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The new signalling system, near Newport, would be smart traffic lights that combine traditional traffic lights with an array of sensors and artificial intelligence to intelligently route vehicle, bike and pedestrian traffic.
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Castle Rock State Park in California is using the KETOS water-monitoring system which conducts continuous tests of the park's drinking water.
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The Hartselle City Council will soon be voting on a proposal that would create the first publicly-owned electric vehicle charging station in all of Morgan County to bolster economic development.
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Critics of the project say the system is intrusive and could be used to spy on citizens, although police insist they are not monitoring camera feeds. Some critics also raise concerns that there is a lack of oversight.
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Self-driving public shuttles will roam up and down the corridor. Street lights will brighten for passersby and then dim to save energy. Stoplights will dynamically adjust to traffic conditions.
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The challenge of rethinking how trains on Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway lines are signaled is being put out to the private sector. Agency officials acknowledge there are myriad challenges to overcome.
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The city of Columbus is offering $300 in gift cards to 1,300 volunteers willing to have smart vehicle technology installed that will enable the user’s car to communicate with one another and traffic signals.
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The city has entered into a five-year partnership with Caltech, which will use an innovative new research field to collect mountains of data on earthquake activity for public safety applications.
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Columbus, Ohio, will be the location for the next pilot project from curbFlow, which is an app technology that is intended to better manage busy delivery, pickup and drop-off areas within cities.
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Metrolink, a commuter rail service in the Los Angeles metro area, has already been credited with eliminating more than 300 million vehicle miles from the region's notoriously clogged highways last year.
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